Cuba Supports Graduation of
Professionals in Caribbean
The Cuban educational system
supports the education of
professionals from the Caribbean
based on the cooperation
agreements signed in the field.
Officials from the Cuban Higher
Education Ministry told press
that at least 18,328 foreign
students graduated in Cuban
since 1961, including 1,362 from
19 Caribbean nations. Some
42,835 foreign students finished
high school since the same year
and 1,653 of them from the
Caribbean.
Cuba´s higher education system
offers in the current academic
year some 18,000 capacities in
the universities for foreign
students, including a 19 percent
arriving from 23 countries of
the region.
Caribbean students are mainly
from Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican
Republic, Guyana, Saint Lucia
and Dominica, among others.
The experts highlighted that
Cuba´s collaboration allows
foreign students to have free
access to education, housing,
maintenance and health care
services.
Venezuelan president
discharges finance minister
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
has discharged Finance Minister
Tobias Nobrega, who announced
last Friday a devaluation of the
bolivar against the US dollar,
led to a currency-exchange
crisis in the country.
Chavez appointed the President
of the National Development
Bank,Nelson Merentes, as
Nobrega's replacement.
The president announced the
change of the head of the
ministry of finance during the
closing of a meeting of
intellectuals, Sunday in
Caracas.
On Friday, Nobrega announced in
New York a 10.7-percent
devaluation of the national
currency, as of January 2005,
although he backed down later
and affirmed there was no
precise date for that measure.
Nobrega had said the bolivar
would go from 1,920 to 2,150
units
The announcement of such
devaluation generated tension in
Venezuela and the dollar
skyrocketed by 8.6 percent, from
2,300 to2,500 bolivars per
dollar.
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Mexican President Fox fires head
of Mexico City police
Mexican President Vicente Fox
fires the Secretary of the
Mexico City Public Security,
Marcelo Ebrard, after the
lynching of three undercover
police agents on November 23,
when they were taken for
kidnappers of children by a mob.
Ebrard had been harshly
criticized because the police
forces could not arrive in time
at the spot of the lynching in
San Juan Ixtayopan, in the
Tlahuac district (south) of this
capital.
In a message, Fox asked Mexico
City's Mayor Andres Lopez, to
send a proposal for Ebrard's
replacement within 72 hours.
Fox also announced the
dismission of Jose Figueroa, the
Commissioner of the Federal
Preventive Police (PFP), for the
same reason.
Meanwhile, the president ordered
to start the restructuring of
the Federal Public Security
Department and clear up the
events taking place in Tlahuac.
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